(This is a bonus chapter.)
Within the Central Tower of Morning Star City, the temporary headquarters of the Church of Truth.
Abner's true body was also asking Bernadette a similar question at that moment. "How is the Church doing so far?"
Although he could find out simply by invoking the Authority of Omniscience, doing so would be far too boring and would not help Abner maintain his Humanity.
Bernadette, dressed with the air of a professional woman, glanced at him, casually summoned an Invisible Servant, and had it deliver an Information Cocoon into Abner's hand before speaking in a somewhat languid tone:
"The initial framework has been completed, and the various departments have more or less gotten on track... Fortunately, the believers you have in Morning Star City are all quite capable, and I have experience from establishing Element Dawn. Otherwise, just over two weeks would never have been enough.
"Currently, the Church has three Grounded Angels: myself, Yaluolan, and Cattleya.
"Fifteen Saints, including three from Morning Star City, four from Element Dawn, and eight from the Moses Ascetic Order... In terms of top-tier combat power alone, we are no weaker than the overt strength of any Church of the True Gods.
"Additionally, we have five Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts and eleven Grade 1 Sealed Artifacts... We have already notified the other Churches and participated in the renumbering... We lack accumulation in this regard, so we are even inferior to the Church of Steam..."
As he listened to Bernadette calmly recount the trivial matters involved in establishing the Church, Abner's gaze grew gentler and gentler—she was truly handling them as if they were her own affairs.
Old Huang's daughter was indeed dependable. Whatever she wanted to do, she put her whole heart into it... I should reward her properly!
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